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Monocacy National Battlefield is a unit of the National Park Service, the site of the Battle of Monocacy in the American Civil War fought on July 9, 1864. The battlefield straddles the Monocacy River southeast of the city of Frederick, Maryland .
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Frederick County, Maryland. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties ...
Gambrill House, also known as Boscobel House and Edgewood, is a house near Frederick, Maryland in the Monocacy National Battlefield. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1] The house is associated with James Gambrill, owner of nearby Araby Mill and the Frederick City Mill.
Andrew Banasik, who is now superintendent at Monocacy National Battlefield in Frederick County, Md., will take over as Antietam's superintendent on May 19, according to a National Park Service ...
National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Archived from the original on 2014-09-04 ... "Monocacy National Battlefield: Battlefield Monuments".
The site was the subject of an archaeological excavation by the National Park Service in the summer of 2010 which focused on the structures on the site, believed to have been slave cabins. The Park Service had acquired the area in 1993 as part of an expansion of the battlefield site, and conducted preliminary investigations in 2003. [2]
The Monocacy Site is an archeological site located along the Potomac River. The site spans several eras ranging from Archaic period to the early Woodland period. Projectile points, pottery and soapstone vessels have been found here, with pottery dated to c. 1145-865 BC. The site is the deepest known stratified site in Maryland. [2]
The northern portion of the park was transferred to the National Park Service on November 14, 1936, and renamed and reorganized on July 12, 1954, with the southern 5,000 acres (20 km 2) transferred to Maryland as Cunningham Falls State Park. Catoctin Mountain vista Cunningham Falls at Catoctin Mountain Park